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ANALYSING THE EFFECTS OF VALUE DRIVERS AND KNOWLEDGE MATURITY IN PRELIMINARY DESIGN DECISION-MAKING
Bertoni, Alessandro; Bertoni, Marco; Johansson, Christian
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Year:
2015
Editor:
Christian Weber, Stephan Husung, Marco CantaMESsa, Gaetano Cascini, Dorian Marjanovic, Srinivasan Venkataraman
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Series:
ICED
Institution:
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Section:
Design Information and Knowledge Management
Page(s):
273-282
ISBN:
978-1-904670-73-5
ISSN:
2220-4334
Abstract:
The paper presents the results of a three-days experiment to test the use of information from a value assessment model and from a knowledge maturity scale in decision-making in preliminary design. A visual analogue scale was used to collect individual information from designers through questionnaires. Bivariate statistical analysis was applied to study the correlations between both the use of value drivers and knowledge maturity and the designers' awareness of the design problem to be addressed. Results show that value drivers and knowledge maturity information increase the decision makers awareness of (1) the different perceptions of design team members about the needs to be satisfied and (2) the technical solution to be developed in the product concept under consideration.
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